US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Why did Trump did this whole tariff stuff and why? Whats the end game here? And is it really working in your opinion?
He has always thought the USA has been getting ripped off in trade deals. And when you dig in and see every other nation is using tariffs or some other restrictions to protect their own industries you can see he is right.

>is it working?
Who the fuck knows if it will. It's only been a few days.
 

*referencing V and Optimus Prime*
Watch a different...you know the rest

"Hands off indigenous lands"
It's called eminent domain

*Old lady with "my body my choice" sign*
There are no eggs in that carton

"Make lying wrong again"
Projection in sign form

"Make America care again"
Fuck off with your fake empathy!

"Okay...now you ticked off Grandma!"
The sign holder probably had no issue with Grandma being arrested for walking through the Capitol

"We're hopping mad!"
There were no riots today, so I guess you weren't that hopping mad
 

Enhance that first one.


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ROFL nice white beard on the black hat hacktivist! "We are Anoominoose WHERE'S MY METAMUCIL, DIANE?! I NEED TO BE IN BED BY SIX SO I CAN WAKE UP EARLY AND CATCH THE MORNING JOE!" hahaha this shit is pathetic.
 
Give me some clocks but I was under a rock in the last couple of weeks (family had a health emergency). This place is one of the few where I can get the closest to a honest answer. So here it goes.

Why did Trump did this whole tariff stuff and why? Whats the end game here? And is it really working in your opinion?
We're not the world's little paypiggy. Not anymore.
 
Petition to make a Tariff general thread?
Some of you guys want to split off every topic that passes through the news cycle.

Tariffs are the biggest topic in American politics right now, and there would be no future for a tariff thread once people have this out of their system.

Also a lot of people legitimately have no idea what to expect to come from it, so there’s genuine interest in reading some of our autistic back and forths.

Since the protest shit happening today is largely in response to the tariffs, what would we be talking about if we couldn’t talk about the tariffs? Infrastructure in Albuquerque?
 
Just going to link to the archive, but my God they're proud of all these geezers standing around like it'll be some gray revolution. Maybe 1 in 20 are under 65.

 
I at least appreciate that people are making their own goofy ass signage and dressing up rather than everyone having the same 'nice' glossy corporate signs mass produced at a copy shop. Its a nice touch honestly.
 
Tariffs are the biggest topic in American politics right now, and there would be no future for a tariff thread once people have this out of their system.
It's a reframing move, they've had to admit everybody does the bad tariff thing to us, and now they're on to claiming the calculations don't make sense. Now that everybody is clear "free trade" means "drain the US" it will be used as political pressure to get protectionist Legislation passed short of the EO.

This is an attack on both offshoring, and a strike to the Democrats, in their core rustbelt base. If Trump gets trade reform, expect major union campaign, and center-left Democrat support for Republicans in the mid-terms. They've been bitching about trade since the Japs in the '80's.
 
This is an attack on both offshoring, and a strike to the Democrats, in their core rustbelt base. If Trump gets trade reform, expect major union campaign, and center-left Democrat support for Republicans in the mid-terms. They've been bitching about trade since the Japs in the '80's.
yeah tbh I'm having a tough time seeing as anything other than a (reasonable) gamble
if this shit can work it's literally the death of the democrats after the USAID and all, if it fails the economy was going to collapse anyway so whateer I do what I want
 
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